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During my summer trip to Italy, we visited a number of ancient churches. Along the walls, artwork hung with little to no description of its importance. Normally, this would be frustrating without purchasing the audio earpiece or guidebook. Now, with a simple point of your smartphone, AI can deliver instant …

https://www.oolimo.de/index.php Another cool site for visualizing the fretboard. Oolimo covers the basics and theory with many good articles on the subject. They review the basic chord types like CAGED. And, there are chord progressions suggestions where you can see how progressions are used in different songs. Finally, you can test …

https://fretbo.ar/ Very cool site to help you visualize your fretboard. Good for scales. Fretbo is a tool to help you visualize the fretboard. After hearing a few guitar virtuosos explain they visualize the fretboard in terms of intervalic functions from the root note of a scale, I knew I had …

Somebody on a FB group asked the question about routing a signal through a plug-in in their digital audio workstation or DAW. Then, 1/2 through the chain, send that signal somewhere else (another pedal), bring that signal back in to finish processing it, send it one more time to some …

https://tones.wolfram.com/ At WolframTones, they have an amazing list of scales. I noticed they did not have a few scales so I have copied the list here so I can add/change them and add personal comments. This is something I have wanted to explore for a very long time. I found …

https://chordpic.com/ Here is a quick bookbmark for creating guitar chords. ChordPic generates a clean, downloadable image. You can even change the shape of the notes and lable them too. There is a color option as well. When you are done, you can download it as a .svg vector format so …

On Facebook, I made a post about a 1980s Paul Gilbert Guitar Player article back in Feb. 2020 about alternative picking. Essentially, this is the exercise he posted in an old Guitar Player magazine and the example is what you see below. It wasn't until the long, pandemic, stay-at-home that …